Photon-counting CT: Technical principles and clinical prospects [PDF]
Photon-counting CT is an emerging technology with the potential to dramatically change clinical CT. Photon-counting CT uses new energy-resolving x-ray detectors, with mechanisms that differ substantially from those of conventional energy-integrating ...
Willemink, Martin J. +4 more
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Advanced Neuroimaging With Photon-Counting Detector CT
Photon-counting detector computed tomography (PCD-CT) is an emerging technology and promises the next step in CT evolution. Photon-counting detectors count the number of individual incoming photons and assess the energy level of each of them.
Schubert, Tilman; https://orcid.org/ +2 more
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Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors: physics and applications [PDF]
Single-photon detectors based on superconducting nanowires (SSPDs or SNSPDs) have rapidly emerged as a highly promising photon-counting technology for infrared wavelengths.
Hadfield, Robert H +5 more
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Bone Mineral Density Quantification from Localizer Radiographs: Accuracy and Precision of Energy-integrating Detector CT and Photon-counting Detector CT [PDF]
Background Bone mineral density (BMD) could be derived from CT localizer radiographs and could potentially enable opportunistic osteoporosis screening.
Saltybaeva, Natalia +7 more
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Photon-Counting CT Reconstruction With a Learned Forward Operator
Photon-Counting CT is an emerging imaging technology that promises higher spatial resolution and the possibility for material decomposition in the reconstruction.
Persson, Mats, +7 more
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Photon-counting x-ray detectors for CT
The introduction of photon-counting detectors is expected to be the next major breakthrough in clinical x-ray CT. During the last decade, there has been considerable research activity in the field of photon-counting CT, in terms of both hardware ...
Danielsson, Mats, +5 more
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Evaluation of the ear ossicles with photon-counting detector CT [PDF]
Recently, computed tomography with photon-counting detector (PCD-CT) has been developed to enable high-resolution imaging at a lower radiation dose. PCD-CT employs a photon-counting detector that can measure the number of incident X-ray photons and their
Fumiyo Higaki +19 more
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Spectral X-Ray CT Image Reconstruction with a Combination of Energy-Integrating and Photon-Counting Detectors. [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to develop an algorithm for hybrid spectral computed tomography (CT) which combines energy-integrating and photon-counting detectors.
Qingsong Yang +3 more
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Ge-on-Si single-photon avalanche diode detectors: design, modeling, fabrication, and characterization at wavelengths 1310 and 1550 nm [PDF]
The design, modeling, fabrication, and characterization of single-photon avalanche diode detectors with an epitaxial Ge absorption region grown directly on Si are presented.
Lever, LJM +48 more
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Ultra-Fast Single-Photon Counting with Waveguide-Integrated Detectors for Quantum Technologies
With recent advances in quantum technologies for applications such as communication, cryptography, computing, metrology and sensing, the performance and scalability of single-photon detection as a vital key component is becoming increasingly important ...
Perlot, Nicolas +15 more
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